Atypon provides software, hosting, and systems development solutions to publishers of media, scholarly, technical, professional and medical content. The company sells a hosted platform solution to manage, deliver and monetize online content and an enterprise access and commerce platform to provide authentication, authorization, administration, registration and licensing functionality for digital goods and services. Atypon works with clients such as McGraw-Hill Education, American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 161,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical...

, The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, The New England Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

 and CBS Interactive to distribute their content over the internet.

History

Atypon was founded in 1996 by CEO Georgios Papadopoulos who was involved in pioneering developments at several high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Mr. Papadopoulos’ early works included developing an access control system for Rizzoli Publishing

RCS MediaGroup

RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV...

 and data fabrication software for the first digital scholarly journal, the Journal of Biological Chemistry

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The Journal of Biological Chemistry is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1905. Since 1925 it is published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It covers research in any area of biochemistry or molecular biology. The editor-in-chief is...

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Atypon has grown both organically, as well as through the acquisitions of Extenza e-Publishing Services in 2005 and eMeta

EMeta

eMeta Corporation was a company that provided access control, subscription management and ecommerce solutions for media, entertainment and software companies. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City. eMeta was taken over by Macrovision Corporation in 2006...

in 2008. The acquisition of eMeta expanded Atypon’s product portfolio to include RightSuite, an enterprise access and commerce platform for the publishing and media industry.

Literatum

Literatum is a hosted e-publishing platform which is used to manage, deliver and monetize online content. Literatum is available in two editions, Premium and Custom, providing the user different levels of customization and flexibility.

RightSuite

RightSuite is an enterprise access and commerce platform that provides authentication, authorization, administration, registration and licensing functionality for digital goods and services. RightSuite is available as server applications and through a SaaS (software-as-a-service) model.

Clients

Atypon's clients include:

• ACS Publications
• Annual Reviews
• CBS Interactive
• CrossRef
• Elsevier
• The Financial Times
• Hoover's
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Institutional Investor Journals
• JSTOR
• McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• News International
• Oxford University Press
• Pearson Education
• Taylor & Francis Group
• TheStreet.com